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NN10265-111 MCS 5100 3.5 Standard 4.0 January 2006

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Copyright © Nortel Networks Limited 2006

to allow I/O blades to boot and mount their file systems over the
network.

The complete base system can be installed in approximately 30
minutes.

IMPORTANT: The installation procedures must be followed separately
for each side if two Portals are installed in the same chassis.

The following is required for an installation:

Chassis and peripherals

— One Motorola CPX8216T high availability compact PCI which is

divided into two domains (A and B), each running independent
media portals.

— One SCSI hard drive per domain, minimum 40Gb.

— One SCSI CD-ROM per domain.

— One 3.5” floppy drive per domain.

— One Motorola CPX8216T HSC/BR hot swap controller per

domain.

Host Blade

— One Motorola CPV5370 per domain.

— One Motorola 5370 transition module per domain.

I/O Blades

— Up to six MCPN765 per domain.

— One PIMC-0101 transition module for each MCPN 765.

Other hardware

— VT100-compatible terminal device for console access to the host

and I/O blades.

Base software

— Red Hat 6.2 installation CD (disc 1)

— RTP Media Portal installation CD

Required information

— IP address information: one address per host blade and one or

two media addresses per I/O blade.

— IP address(es) of timeservers.

— MAC (ethernet) addresses of all I/O blades (two addresses per

blade). Addresses can be found on labels affixed to the blade or